The clockwise carriageway is closed following a fire

Much remains unknown about the man who carried out an attack in New Orleans on New Year’s and another who died in an explosion in Las Vegas the same day

Extensive enquiries have been carried out and it has been established that he was struck by a car which failed to stop. The car is believed to be a silver Vauxhall Astra and enquiries are ongoing to trace it.

Experts say sighting of orca in Puget Sound with second deceased calf is ‘devastating’ for ailing populationAn apparently grieving killer whale who swam more than 1,000 miles pushing the body of her dead newborn has lost another calf and is again carrying the body, a development researchers say is a “devastating” loss for the ailing population.The Washington state-based Center for Whale Research said the orca, known as Tahlequah, or J35, was spotted in the Puget Sound area with her deceased calf. Continue reading...

An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that carried her dead calf for over two weeks in 2018 is doing so once again following the death of her new calf

Pictures taken by a walker shortly after midday on January 2, with the road still closed off, showed a woman doing yoga in the middle of the carriageway.

The FBI identified the driver who killed 15 people in attack on New Year’s Day as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a US citizen from Texas

The flights bringing home the dead are becoming a regular occurrence but Russia takes strenuous measures not to show them to the public, fearing a loss of morale

Both suspects had military experience with the attacks carried out hours after one another

While the Highway Code covers obvious aspects of the road, there are other rules that are less known - including the 'unwritten' one that drivers have carried out for decades in a bid to look out for one another

Experts’ group employs new technologies and techniques to help relatives of those missing in the migration crisis Four years ago, the remains of a toddler encased in a lifejacket and a navy snowsuit washed up on a beach in southern Norway, having spent the previous two months being carried on North Sea currents. Though his face was barely recognisable, publicity about the sinking of the migrant boat he had been travelling on, and suspicions about his identity, enabled Norwegian police to locate a relative to whom his DNA could be matched, providing this lonely corpse with a name: Artin Iran Nezhad.Others remain nameless. Of the tens of thousands who die trying to reach Europe, only about a fifth are ever formally identified. For their relatives, this lack of closure is a continuing trauma. However, a recently established network of forensic scientists is trying to change this, through the development of new technologies and processes to aid identification efforts. Continue reading...